HOME ALONE - The Musical (seriously)

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:23pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oV8pOkD2aY&feature=rec-HM-rn

Seriously, this IS rather a good idea for a stage play. It has the family audience, is a beloved movie, potential for great farce sequence during the attempted robbery scene...it could really really work!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:43pm

I'm not so sure this is "seriously". At least, I hope not.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:44pm

Oops, I meant to start the thread with "seriously, this should happen!" :P

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:52pm

Whoever posted it on youtube seems to think that it IS coming to B'way....and so did some of the posters!

[jagfkb]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:55pm

You DO realize this was from The Battery's Down, right? AKB, thank you for showing us a movie that will NEVER work as a musical. A farce, perhaps, but who wants a musical with three main characters excluding the family?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:56pm

dramamama, it's from THE BATTERY'S DOWN, a youtube musical series.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:58pm

I totally realize that...but the person that put it on you tube as a pull out (based on the description) and some of the people that commented on it seem to think that it was for real.

[CateBroadway]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 4:52pm

"AKB, thank you for showing us a movie that will NEVER work as a musical."

I don't think anyone was saying it would actually work as a musical. The Battery's Down is a fictitious comedy series.
That being said, stranger source materials have certainly been made into musicals in the past few years.

[fgreene1938]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 5:22pm

Okay, let's think about this...

...The Wedding Singer...Legally Blonde...Xanadu...Young Frankenstein...The Little Mermaid...Shrek the Musical...9 to 5...Sister Act...

BOMBS AWAY!! (Sister Act's not here yet but the reviews indicate....KA-BOOM!)

What's with BW these days. Take a trifle of a retro-film and turn it into a musical that runs for a year, can't pay back its investment and closes at a loss. Home Alone is a great idea for a musical? Try this one:

Apocalypse, Now
Starring:

Nathan Lane as Martin Sheen, Chita Rivera as Harrison Ford, Harvey Fierstein as Robert Duvall, P Diddy as Lawrence Fishburne and, in the role originated by Marlon Brando as the Colonel...Angela Lansbury.

Score by: Marvin Hamlisch and Orfeh
Choreography by: Ron Kovic
Orchestrastions by: Meredith Viera
Scenic Design by: Carol Burnett
Costumes by: K-Mart

I don't know about you, but this sounds like a winner to me.
Updated On: 7/22/09 at 05:22 PM

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 5:30pm

Well, sure, if you only count the flops.

What about:
The Producers
Billy Elliot
Beauty and the Beast
Hairspray

All movies turned into musicals. Just because more have failed than been successful (which is true of ALL commercial Broadway) doesn't mean it's inherently a bad idea.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 5:40pm

"That being said, stranger source materials have certainly been made into musicals in the past few years."

Yeah, but they actually worked on stage. It doesn't matter how "strange" they are, LOL

[fgreene1938]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 5:55pm

Not an inherently bad idea, just an inherently witless one. The name of this thread is "HOME ALONE - The Musical (seriously)" for a reason. Common knowledge is that this type of show aims for the lowest common denominator to sell tickets "better" than more original works. The theory doesn't work. What's next - "Night at the Museum - The Musical"? Maybe they can get David Hasselhoff for that one.

[Byron Abens]

Posted: 7/22/09 at 6:16pm

In all honesty, I have been saying for a while now that if I had any talent for composing (which I don't) I would be working on Kindergarten Cop: The Musical. Think about a chorus of children in such showstoppers as "It's Not a Tum-ah," "Who Is My Daddy and What Does He Do?" and "Stranger Danger!"

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 3/12/19 at 1:50pm

I was thinking about this the past couple of days and I’m actually kind of shocked at the negative reaction to a musical adaptation of home alone. Depending on the creative team, of course, I think this could be really successful. Maybe get the same folks who worked on A Christmas Story. Imagine the 11 o’clock number the mother can have in the back of the truck!! It could be Pasek and Paul’s next so small, so big.

[BwayLB]

Posted: 3/12/19 at 4:54pm

^ Dont forget Somewhere in My Memory too